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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib
| c. 11th Century

What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man.

Rabbi Hillel

There's a joke about the fact that what Jesus spent most of his time teaching about was the kingdom of God, but what he got was the church

Steve Chalke
| 2015

Our greatest danger in life is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit our target.

Steve Chalke
| 2015

I've always said that in the death camps they did not just kill six million Jews, but they killed Jesus six million times over...since he carried the message of the prophets.

Rabbi? Abraham Skorka
| 2013

Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.

Confucius
| 551-479 BCE

The Church exists to draw men unto Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the Cathedrals, clergies, missions, sermons, even the bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.

C. S. Lewis
| 1952

There it is that a light shines on my soul that no place can contain, a sound is uttered that no time can take away, a fragrance cast that no breath of wind can disperse, a savour given forth that eating cannot blunt. This is what I love in loving God.

St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
| 354-430

What the Psalms show and our prayers indicate is that our operational theology describes a god who is less than God. Our operational theology describes a god of human making. Our prayers call forth a god on a human scale. We operate as though God is our lackey, available to demolish our enemies, and confirm our prejudices. We pray as though God were our wayward teenage child whose friends we must approve.